Tom Martello writes a regular column about the 2025 race for New Jersey governor .

A prominent Jersey Republican once told me how impossible it was cutting his political teeth just after Watergate, Richard Nixon’s career-ending scandal. He said voter anger was so far-reaching, it cost him victory in a simple school board election in a rural Republican town.

More than half a century later, Donald Trump took a sledgehammer to the Republican Party on Election Day, killing any chance Jack Ciattarelli had to be Jersey governor and paving the way for Democrat Mikie Sherrill to win by a whopping 13-plus points.

The “we just can’t stomach Trump” feeling didn’t stop there, either. When all is said and done, Democrats in the state Assembly will have their biggest majority since — you

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